Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast Audioplay

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Full Cast Recording

Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

Audie Award Finalist, Multi-Voiced Performance, 2014

Audie Award Finalist, Original Work, 2014

Experience Ender's Game as you've never heard it before! With an all-new, original script written by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game Alive is a full cast audio drama that reimagines the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic.

Ender’s Game Alive puts you into Battle School with young Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, as he trains to become the general who will lead Earth against the Formics, the alien "buggers". Removed from his family at the age of six, Ender must prove his strength and his leadership, even as he fights his own doubts. The stakes are nothing less than the fate of humankind.

Ender's Game Alive is performed by Kirby Heyborne, Stefan Rudnicki, Theodore Bikel, Scott Brick, Samantha Eggar, Harlan Ellison, Susan Hanfield, Roxanne Hernandez, Janis Ian, Rex Linn, Richard McGonagle, Jim Meskimen, Emily Rankin, John Rubinstein, Christian Rummel, and a full cast.

Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir

Original Score by John Rubinstein

Valentine's Theme by Janis Ian

Additional music and arrangements by Mark Mitchell

©2013 Orson Scott Card (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Listeners will feel surrounded by Card's sophisticated, high-stakes universe. With a stately musical score and video-game sound effects, this "re-imagined" production sticks close to the novel while offering listeners an entertaining new way to enjoy one of science fiction's best loved stories.” ( AudioFile)

Great!

Really enjoyed this book even though I didn’t even listen to the original. Great book!

Well done stage version

I enjoyed listening to this version having read the original. It was well done and paints the pictures through the characters' eyes without the use of a narrator. This version doesn't lose anything staying true to the story.

Great Rendition!

I've read and listen to this book but it sounds so much better this way!

details

it's always the small details that make a book better than a movie I feel. I also enjoyed the full cast more than I thought I would but I feel the music wasn't needed.

Not for first timers. Didn't live to the original.

Behind the creation of this audiobook there was a good idea, bad it was poorly executed. It missed all of the indirect speech, thus wasn't suitable for first time listeners at all, not mentioning You cut out like 80% of the story. I wish You made this one 21 hours long, with all the dialogues and indirect speech from the original book and some more, it'd been TOP, a total masterpiece.

This is like Earth without art, just eh. I see this audiobook as a missed opportunity.

A brilliant radio-like performance.

Many reviews on the internet bemoan the lack of child voice actors in this title. Phooey!

Like many popular kids shows, the boys younger than puberty are voiced by females without much notice by an engrossed audience.

These narrators are seasoned in the craft of voice acting and lend real talent to one of my favorite books of all time.

This isn't a full-cast audiobook version of the original, but something different. Both the performance and scripting offer insight to the series, not just the original story.

well performed and immersive!

a new experience in Enders game, wonderful to listen to and enjoy. highly recommend for anyone

Absolutely brilliant!

After reading the original book and watching the movie, this book was as close to an actual Broadway Play as any I have ever read before. This book is how I, personally, believe the movie should have gone. It kept the original book's performance with only quotation and no filler. I can consider it like a movie without the visuals.

Too much is missing

I had read Ender's game twice over a decade ago, as well as Ender's shadow, but so much of the story was either never explained or quickly glossed over. I felt disconnected from the characters and story whenever they used slang that was never explicitly discussed in the audio. The performances were great, but the script should have been more inclusive at 7 hours and 24 minutes, you may as well have rounded it up to 8 hours, and tried to include some of the battles, I know they won't be as descriptive, but reading the battles always gave a sense of excitement and were enthralling. I know they covered his first, last and the battle with Boneso, but I think they went over more in the book.

Loved this format

I have read the original book a few times. I recommend a person reads the book first as it gives additional insight into Ender, Bean, and others. I loved the performance. It was pretty easy to pick up on who was speaking, which really added to the whole audio play.